The ancestor of the Chinese nation is suiren
China passed down from ancient times story begins in which man learnt to make a fire (pay attention to is to make a fire, instead of using fire) when ancient human form one group is in the form of family, we can call their tribes, (like a monkey community today) long before humans can be obtained from the wild fire to use fire, but it is not easy to save, fire completely see luck.
Finally one day have a tribal people found that can knock the ignition of flint, the tribe's people will tell the findings of other tribes and teach them how to use, so humans don't have to worry about no fire, people in order to thank and honor the tribe will be such an important knowledge sharing to them, just call the tribe suiren tribe. The flint tribe may or may not have survived, but because he Shared his knowledge of making fire with all humans, it was later enshrined as the common ancestor of the Chinese nation (whether it was the descendant of the original flint tribe or not) and the first ancestor of the Chinese nation.
The ancestor of the Chinese nation is chao shi
Humans began to live in a cave, because humans have learned to make a fire, got more security, the safety of the human life also becomes longer, so the population began to increase, but the area of the cave is limited, can't hold a lot of people, if you live outside the cave at night is very dangerous, and cave is not where all have, these conditions greatly limit the areas of human activity.
One year a tribe to birds build their nests in the tree built the first house, it may rain, like a cave that can greatly extend the human activity area, especially the plains without cave, the tribe taught the method of building to other tribes, then remembered the seruice, like suiren people sacrifice a nest for ancestors.
The ancestor of the Chinese nation: shen nong
Early humans hunting is the main food of meat, and part of the plant tuber and wild fruit in the forest, because of low human production capacity at that time, by using the method of hunting for food is not very stable, there is no guarantee that tribal people eat satisfied belly, especially food is a major problem in the winter, people often lived a day of hunger. Problems for later have a tribal migration had to leave the original place to far away, in their migration way in order to get enough food, not only to hunting, also have not seen for a variety of grass, they found some grass can fill the stomach, some grass can cure diseases, including a grass can alleviate their usual suffered all kinds of pain diseases (at that time people think) they call this grass tea, their tribe will down along the way, all kinds of plants. At last they found a fertile place to settle down, planting grass who can fill the stomach, for those who can treat disease of grass, and teach the other tribes planting, treating them, but they didn't know there are many grass, some disease has no cure, the tribe has a good leader, when he looked ill very sad painful dead, decided to find new grass to treat them, one day, he tasted a poisonous grass died.
in order to thank the tribe church people grow make humans no longer hungry belly, and find herbal treatment of human diseases, people call them after the emperor shen nong. And remember this tribe has a kind and great people died to save people, so left the legend of shen nong and shen nong died tasting the grass. (it should be noted that the name shennong was still used by the tribes until 5000 years ago.)
suiren, youchao and shennong represent the three important stages of human civilization, using fire, building houses and planting crops. But people in ancient times did not know, so there were many fairy tales and Chinese gods were born from these three ancestors.
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